Eagle

Went here yesterday for an Easter Sunday lunch with 4 friends, the food was excellent and fairly priced, the staff attentive, friendly and accommodating in an ambiance that was both relaxed and easygoing. Highly recommended.

Had a similar experience as CC below. Called to make reservation for lunch but was told they don't take bookings. I was then asked how many people was if for only for him to then tell me they are fully booked! Service is not great in the pub either but food is pretty good.

I would like to be really honest in my review of this pub. I have never been, but the way that the manager spoke to me on the phone was absolutley appalling. What happened was, I made a provisional booking for a lunch and received a call to confirm the booking. As an assistant, I make bookings on behalf of directors at our bank and said i would call him back. He was rude to me on the phone, demanding to know then if the booking was confirmed and wanted me to pay a deposit, which I explained that I had made the booking for someone else and i would call back. His response was in a rude and agressive manner 'call back immediately' then slammed the phone down. To be honest, I felt really intimidated to call back and looked online for an email but couldnt find one as they do not have a website. I reluctantly called back.. (after receiving another call back only 40mins later which i missed..) and the same man answered the phone. He knew straight away who i was and didnt even give me a chance to speak and he started ranting about how its a busy time of year and that I myself have taken the pee. I explained again that I book on behalf of other people, and that I hadnt yet spoken to the person who I had made the booking for and then told him that I feel really threatened by his language, in which he responded 'well then im cancelling the booking' i said thats fine and makes sense as I couldnt confirm right then but that i didnt understand his attitude towards me.. he said well you made a booking on one of our busiest day of the year and you havent even got the decency to bother confirming the booking and paying the deposit and anyway, we dont want people of your sorts here. I asked to speak to the manager or owner, which he claimed to be. I asked his name just to check online incase he was just a worker there so i could let the owner know and he refused to tell me. He said I only give my name to people I want to give my name too. He then told me to f**k off. I said thats horrible why are you being like this to me and he said just f**k off and then put the phone down on me. I have never yet been spoken to in my life by someone like that. im a young 16 year old girl just started my first job and this has scared me to be honest, i dont want to make corporate bookings anymore. please never go there, the food may be good, but seriously do you want your hard earned money going into the pocket of someone like this? and to be honest, if you do go there and he is there how do you know that you will not be spoken to like this? its really upsetting.

The shabby look is great, takes a lot of effort to get that level of wear artificially but this is natural wear... The blackboard menu is extensive and the food cooked behind the bar so you can see it all happening. This makes it all about the food. Shame then the food is seriously mediocre, about a seaside caff level of care. Yes, the chef ( fry cook?) tosses the food about with flair and attitude, and the staff have great confidence but dodgy fish stews with confused ingredients, fatty and tough lamb chops, over sweet mushy vegetarian choices depressed me. Better off going to a City pub for a meal. The staff need to seriously taste and work on the quality of the food, however the atmosphere is great, just have a drink there and move on.

A wicked place. S place to relax after an office job. This is a place to go when you dont want to be bothered about anything. No one is going to tell you nothing when you spill your drink or you put your legs on a chair. A place for busy people with money to be. The place keeps the quality of food and drink superb, but at the same time the service suffer. That is what the people going there need. They don't want to be bothered. There is a massive building of journalist compAny. People who work there can afford more expensive and better places. But on the eagle they can fully relax, because there is pretty much no service. If you spill a drink, no one cares. And you don't feel yourself uncomfortable. You can put your feet on a table and no one is going to say you nothing. It is a place for people with money to chill out, who had enough of posh restaurants.

sorry to read Karl's comments below.. I go to the eagle quite often. there is a huge number of regulars that use this place for lunch and it is obvious why.. accommodating them/us and new clientele is no easy task. but the food is always superb, reasonably priced and wine choice excellent. best to avoid friday lunch time though is it is packed to the rafters.. and no doubt the service may slip a little.. the price of success no doubt

Bad, bad service and this was by the manager who pretty much threw a temper tantrum as we had decided not to sit in front of the door with the draft blowing in.

it's the tops

Once a great little place for food, shabby but that wasn't a problem when you went there for the food. They appear to have a new bar/kitchen manager now who seems to have no idea what he's doing. I took back a seafood stew I had there as the squid had been grilled to death and had given the whole dish a bitter burnt flavour. I was told by both the chef and the manager that this was how it was supposed to be served, the chef then picked up the squid with her hands looked at it and put it back on the plate, when I said I didn't really want to eat it now she snorted at me then the bar manager refused any refund despite the fact I had had one mouthful of the dish and couldn't eat the rest as it was burnt. This place now trades on reputation alone, there are far better choices in the area.

Nice pub, good food and ok service. Really good steak and potatoes, though I was slightly taken aback that I wasn't allowed mustard with it! Apparently it's too expensive to keep in the kitchen just in case. I thought the chef was going to punch me for having the cheek to even ask.